Angels Carry the Sun is pending publication with Lilly Press, anticipated date of arrival, June 2010. Visit River Poets Journal and click on "New Books/Lilly Press."
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Angels Carry the Sun synopis
In the early 1980s, living in rural poverty in one of the wealthiest counties in Pennsylvania, Flora McDermott has found an epic love. Everett Finn has that "Black Irish" look, with the black black bottom-of-the-abyss hair and contrasting eyes of sky. When she sits in his high school English class, Flora can think of little else. She has no choice; her pens are possessed; she has to flood him with love notes and poetry. After all, one never knows what could happen in life. He just may give in to her if she perseveres. A coming-of-age story with a bite, Flora’s sojourn is of the rudiments that persist in the human heart--dreams, memory, love, and family, and the ever-mysterious and mutable definition of self.
Recent Publications
Summer/Fall 2009, Winter 2010 Story, "Hero Worship," is now up on Sixers Review.
Story, "Holograms," will be in Sep issue of Bartleby-Snopes.
Poem, "Car Problems," Sep issue of The Battered Suitcase.
Story, "Pyramids," Aug issue of The Big Table online. I know it was supposed to be Aug but I am still not finding it yet....
Flash Fiction, "Twinkle," Aug in Ascent Aspirations.
Two Poems, "Horse Tree" and "Where are we Going?," in Ascent Aspirations November 2009. Link now goes directly to it....
God's PInk Flower, #27," can be found here: Frostwriting.
Poem, "Almost an Epiphany," this fall in Waterways, volume 30, #3.
Poem, "Foie Gras," this fall in The Black Boot (Not up yet online, already out in print.)
Story, "The Queens of Silly," in River Poets Journal fall issue.
Poem, "This Resolution," is up now on Counterexample Poetics website.
Poem, "Integrity," in summer issue of The Big Table online.
Flash fiction, "The Big Bang," will be in October issue of A cappella Zoo print journal.
Flash fiction, "Kindness," in Aug at The Cynic online mag.
Flash fiction, "Bob's Jalapeno Hummus," in Hoi Polloi III.
Flash fiction, "Club Hellaciously Fabulous," went up in July on "Calliope Nerve.
Flash fiction, "The Persimmon Tree," archived in The Northville Review.
Poem, "Pariah" in Shoots and Vines as of Oct. 7.
9-4-09 Flash fiction, "Two Little Deaths" is up on Danse Macabre as of today.
9-11-09 Flash Fiction, "Safe," is up on Calliope Nerve now.
Poem, "A More Significant Sun," will be published in print magazine, ILLUMEN on Oct 1.
Poem, "Rebirth of Venus," will be included in this fall's issue of The Chaffey Review.
"Visiting Hours" will be in Blue Print Review, issue 23.
"Gumball Machines and Death," will be in Jan. 2010 issue of Ascent Aspirations.
Oct. '09 "Alone in the Road with Everything," will be included in the upcoming issue of The Quills Quarterly.
Oct. 09 Ginosko Literary Journal will be including, "Frostbitten" in issue #10.
Bloodlotus has now (Nov.) published "Club Hellaciously Fabulous.
Weirdyear (has it been? yes, yes, yes!) will publish "Appliance Repair" on Nov. 16th, on their front page.
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My 2009 Pushcart-nominated story, "Carp with Water in their Ears," can be found here: River Poets Journal
My 2010 Pushcart-nominated story,"The Librarian and the Janitor," can be found here: Bartleby-Snopes
My story, "Dentist," won third place in Bartleby-Snopes Dec. '09 story-of-the-month contest. "Holograms" won second place back in Sep. '09.
Publications continued...
Folly Magazine published three poems, "Insomnia on the Night of a Power Outage," "The Holy Trinity," and "Flat World" in Folly Mag, Nov. 2009
The Northville Review is taking "The Direction of Chaos." Probably up sometime soon.
Bartleby-Snopes is taking "Dentist," my first (I think) story about blatant sexism. That will be going online in December.
Poem, "JFK-Assassination-Baby-Boomer Support Group," will be published in Shoots and Vines online Dec. 30th.
Sugar Mule has published my poems, "Laundromat," "Conversation on a Train," and "Babes in the Woods," Feb. 1, 2010 in issue 34, online.
Thirteen Myna Birds will be publishing one of my all-time- favorite stories, "The Sky is Satisfied," on Dec. 3, 2009.
Wood Coin is taking "Decisions, Decisions." It will be in their "Predators>>>Pets>>>Foodstuffs Issue" which will be published sometime this spring.
Dec. 4, 2009 My story "Holograms" has now been reprinted in Ginosko #9 (ginoskoliterary.journal.com.) Bartleby-Snopes published it a few months back....
decomP has published my story, "The Sea of Maybe"-- Feb. 2010.
SNReview (.org, not .com) is publishing my poem, "The Mountain Wears Down," and reprinting the poem, "A More Significant Sun," in its winter issue.
River Poets Journal has published my flash fiction story, "The Various Colors of Desire," on their Reading Room page.
As of Feb. 2010, Glossolalia has published my story, "High Tide."
Feb. 2010 My story, "Cinderella Hooks Up" is now on eskimopie.
Feb. 2010 My story, "Visiting Hours," is now up on Blue Print Review (issue 23.)
Here are two poems, "The Mountain Wears Down" and "A More Significant Sun." (The second was orig. published in ILLUMEN in Oct. '09) SNReview
My poem, "Mathematics," is now up on Calliope Nerve.
My flash fiction story, "The Direction of Chaos" was published in The Northville Review in early April '10.
My poem, "The Old Lady and the Fish" was published in Volume 2, Issue #46 of The River. This little local mag has been going steadily for 40 years . . .
8-6-10 My microstory, Book Killer now in Metazen online--on right side of page.
This coffee shop I read at sometimes is putting out their first Fuze Anthology (Turtle Ink Press), and my poem, "Epistemology" is in it. Coming out July 30, 2010.
8-6-10 My interview with Metazen magazine.
8-19-10 My story, "Trying to Make Flowers Grow out of a Broken Heart" will be in the Dec 2010 issue of poeticdiversity online.
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My first novel Angels Carry the Sun is coming out Sep 15, 2010 (Lilly Press)!
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